Penn State editor, Tina Hay, makes a nice blog post about her visit to the Joel N. Myers Weather Center during Parents and Families Weekend 2009.
Penn State editor, Tina Hay, makes a nice blog post about her visit to the Joel N. Myers Weather Center during Parents and Families Weekend 2009.
"Action News meteorologist Erica Grow, '02 Penn State graduate, was on campus July 16 to speak to a group of teenage girls attending the Math Options for Girls camp."
"Paul Markowski, a meteorologist at Penn State University who serves on VORTEX2's steering committee and directs a team of mobile observation platforms taking part in the experiment, said the datasets the teams collected on supercells that didn't produce tornadoes were "real gems for us," because they can be compared to data sets on tornado producing storms to identify key differences."
ICAT Damage Estimator Revisits a $13.8B July Hurricane
"Hurricane specialist Chris Landsea, with the National Hurricane Center in Miami, disputes theories that global warming has caused more hurricanes, in a study to be published soon in The Journal of Climate. Prof. Michael Mann disagrees with his research findings, saying that his technology argument ignores the chance that a single storm could have been counted twice before satellite records could show the exact track. He expressed doubt that the study would pass muster to be published."
Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter will present senior Tyler McCandless with a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) during a public presentation and ceremony at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 18 in 22 Deike Building on Penn State's University Park campus. The award ceremony will coincide with a presentation by Carpenter during which he will share his experiences as an original Mercury 7 astronaut and what it was like to be the second American to orbit the Earth. Carpenter’s lecture will be the keynote address at a special symposium, "The Earth -- Within and Beyond."
After all, a recent study at Penn State pitted two groups against each other in a weather-trading simulation to see which would be more successful. According to the study's press release, "the results so far show the market to be far more profitable for traders who are studying meteorology than those who are studying business."
From the American Physical Society, May 2009: "Recreating existing complex clouds is exactly what Fuqing Zhang of Penn State University is doing. He has been taking Doppler radar information on the paths of hurricanes crossing the Gulf of Mexico in hopes of predicting where they’ll hit the coast. This approach to forecasting relies primarily on probabilities derived from estimated cloud turbulence models."
Long before The Weather Channel, when TV news was in black and white and only 15 minutes each evening, Penn State's Department of Meteorology began broadcasting local weather to central Pennsylvania farmers and residents. Fifty years later, Penn State meteorologists are still providing weather information to the entire Commonwealth via the Pennsylvania Cable Network and to dozens of U.S. cities through Weather World alumni working at TV stations.
"Anyone interested in Hingham weather can go online and get up-to-the-minute data -- as long as the site's meteorologist isn't in class at the time."
A Penn State study of climate change projects a warmer, wetter Pennsylvania, with a longer growing season and significantly less snow by the middle of the current century. Study co-authors include Raymond Najjar, Associate Professor of Meteorology.